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Try south eastern Minnesota on I-90 Austin, mid summer, hot day smell wafting from the Armour / SPAM packing plant...........Gag a maggot kind of wretch. Honestly it was WORSE in the winter cause the smell was year round & in January with the heat on....well you get the idea. Do NOT miss that at all

Eric, Great shots & great vid on the LMSW. one of these days we will meet up at a show..LOL Rick

Hi guys, We made the drive to get away from the rain. Here are a few of the big & beautiful Walter snow fighter. best i could get as the "human laser" on the camera was just not strong enough. Rick

Nice & it still looks like a Freightliner. Go figure.

no matter how much you hang on a truck, "Chrome STILL don't get you home" . THe only good from all this chrome crap is someone is making a living on it.

Just another example of mother Vulva tightening the noose on Mack's customer service, along with the future of the brand....The DSM's are limited by what corporate Vulva says. It is only going to get worse, NOT better.

Dang, that is a beefy DM-8. get a real kick out of the gin pole boom out back, classic working rig.

Why start now???? My side still hurts from laughing so hard...

LMAO, needed that this morning.

Mike, at the rate you are going you will have all the vintage Mack's from Iowa in one sweet place. Time for a museum yet?

Ditto.......LMAO

Yes, Cook Bros made use of the CV cab. Others are correct that Diamond Reo never used the CV cab, doubtful if Reo did. Need to go look in the archives.

After spending part of my life as a service manager for a Mack / Volvo truck dealership, MY opinions are based on servicing the only 2 Titan's, both with the same outfit, both used in heavy haul, both plagued with constant problems. Perhaps if we had more of them to experience, then perhaps MY opinion of the Titan would be better. The sales department tried to sell more to local heavy haulers, but in the end the initial notably higher cost of the Titan platform over a well equipped CH-613 505hp. Aside from the higher cost of the Titan, by the time one (in this application) was quoted, it weighed too much for the wonderful NYS bridge formula. Good for you that you have 2 & they are working well for you & your application. These are still MY opinions, based on real world service experience. Rick

FWD & Oshkosh also used the Comfo-vision cab. One important note in regards to the use by Diamond T, when the design was use on the 950 / 951 chassis, it was modified & assembled longer in the cowl & deeper in the cab. I forget exactly how much, but these were quit different. Rick

It would seem that Navistar, thru a series of bad decisions & miscalculations is getting closer & closer to a plummeting stock value where a buyout or take-over has become a real threat. The implications would be devastating to not just the company, but the impact on the US economy, as yet another US owned company falls to outside plundering.

Cheaply built modern plastic POS Vulva with a sad dog on the hood........................................

So, lets get this thread back on track. Here are a few shots of one of the ex-Pelletier Titans after it's second time getting rolled in to a ditch. Rick

Cool, early unit, IC235C, 35 ton coal bucket. Most has Cummins NTC-370, 14:00x25 boots, this one has the Rockwell planetaries.

Yeah, NOW that's what i am talking about. 50 tonners with Morgantown style coal bodies & 65 tonners with rock ribs. All with offset cabs. The later units (square hood & fenders) commonly powered by Cummins KTA-450. Earlier versions have rounded fenders, these were usually powered by 12V-71. Direct mount Allison CL(B)T-5960 or 6061 power shifts driving either Rockwell SPRC-1927's or Clark BD-121000. Great pics.

You mean Dayrl Casto?

I like them all, more more more. And if you run across a Cline or 2.......... Rick

Mark, Great to see a wall of Winross, too bad they are no more. Rick

turn off the auto flash on the camera, you can always adjust the photo before posting with any photo editing software. Rick

Classic Japanese design style, little bits here & there influenced by other makers. The Japanese way of engineering has always been to take an existing object & make it better. They typically are not as successful with a "clean sheet" build. So with that thought, we can easily see shapes from FWD (as sleepwalker commented) in the grille area, Ford F-800-900 in the cab, Eaton in the drive axles, Timken & KW Big-6 in the rear suspension. All together these were close to indestructible, used for off highway logging in Borneo, the Philippines, and just about any other emerging economy in the 3rd world nations. Great to see these again, Rick